2 Maccabees 7:6-8
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
6 “The Lord God is looking on and truly has compassion on us, as Moses declared in his song, when he openly bore witness, saying, ‘And God will have compassion on his servants.’”(A)
7 After the first brother had died in this manner, they brought the second to be made sport of. After tearing off the skin and hair of his head, they asked him, “Will you eat the pork rather than have your body tortured limb by limb?” 8 Answering in the language of his ancestors, he said, “Never!” So he in turn suffered the same tortures as the first.
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